by Winston Biscuit »
12 Jan 2021 15:22
If anyone is interested in the impact of Brexit on football then listen to the Guardian football podcast just out today. The basic message is the bigger more successful club you are the more you benefit as the previous players are still available but now you can sign players from outside the EU even easier. Once you are out of the PL you are going to find problems trying to recruit in the way you have in the past and need to change.
Points assigned are based on the quality of the league they are coming from, the club they are coming from, league position, whether that club competes in continental competition and club appearances.
You need 15 points on the new immigration model to get approved for a work permit. 10 points for under 21 players who are over 18
10-15 points and you can take it to an exemption panel and argue your case with the suggestion being that one of the biggest factors you can add in is 'we are one of the top clubs and us wanting them means there is a demand for them' which will then get you over the 15 point line.
If you have played 30% of minutes available for a national team ranked in the top 10 in the last 24 months then you get 15 points
Example:
Being at Real Madrid gets you 12 points as they are in the top 4 leagues and play in a continental competition. If you have as a minimum been a named substitute for them once in a CL game then you get another 5 points and are over the line.
Where it will impact is once you are outside the PL as the players you are trying to sign are likely to not be at a big club earning those points. An example used was signing players from French 2nd division, which is a common one here for FL clubs, is now going to be very difficult.
Example:
Teemu Puuki would not qualify to move here now. Brentford's Bryan Mbuemo would also struggle.
Solskjaer would not have qualified to move here to manage Man Utd from Molde
China is an oddly highly rated league so a manager from a country that doesn't qualify could go to China for a short while, earn some nice money, then get his move here
If a foreign manager doesn't attend work for 10 days in a row the club must report it to the Home Office
Positive for big PL teams is it makes signing players from South America easier, especially for under 21's
Players from Ireland won't need work permits (Common Travel Area) so expect to see Irish clubs suddenly having money to bring in youngsters who a year or 2 later move to English football. This also makes it more likely that PL clubs will try and own Irish clubs (lke Chelsea and Man Utd do in Belgium)
The take away message for me was:
A win for top PL clubs as there are only new opportunities to sign players, very few new restrictions come in for them. now much easier for them to bring in youngsters into their academies from all around the world. A negative is they now have less reason to go for British players.
Lower league needs to adjust itself for more home grown players in the squads and academies. Potential bigger gap between top clubs and the rest.
Expect more club owners to try to also own other clubs in leagues (like some do in Belgium now) where they will get the points needed and loans between these clubs may become the norm
Didn't fully understand it but they said it would increase the chance of young English players moving abroad. Their european journalists said some clubs outside the UK see it as an exciting opportunity to scoop up British talent at a time when our young players are thought quite highly of